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Calling drug cartels “terrorists” is a failure to understand how the drug war really works

Between late January and early February, the U.S. conducted at least surveillance flights along the U.S.-Mexico border

Historically recognized as one of the most powerful drug cartels, the Sinaloa Cartel now faces an uncertain future, marked by fragmentation and internal power struggles.

Two top leaders of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel were arrested by US agents in Texas during a dramatic operation and without the involvment of Mexican authorities.

Honduras still has a long way to go to dismantle the "narco-state" that grew under ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, jailed this week for smuggling a deluge of cocaine into the United States, experts told AFP. Hernandez, 55, spent years in positions of power cozying up to kingpins from some of…

Nestor Isidro Pérez Salas was being sought in the U.S. on charges of conspiracy to import and distribute fentanyl.

Ovidio Guzmán López, a son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, faces drug trafficking, money laundering and other charges in the United States. Mexican security forces captured Guzmán López in January.

Prosecutors revealed in a recent indictment that while Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán serves a life sentence, his sons have steered the family business into fentanyl, establishing a network of labs churning out massive quantities of the cheap, deadly drug that they smuggle into the U.S. The indictment…

U.S. agents in southern Arizona say they seized up to 440 pounds of what they suspect is a precursor chemical often used to manufacture the dangerous drug fentanyl